Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.]
This paper presents a pioneering program/initiative to prevent child abuse in Malaysia: Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (hereafter SCAN Team). While there are three main initiative/programs to prevent child abuse in Malaysia, namely Child Protection Team, Child Protection Unit and SCAN Team;...
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| author | Ahmad, Yarina Denise, Cuthbert Arunachalam, Dharma Niner, Sara |
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| description | This paper presents a pioneering program/initiative to prevent child abuse in Malaysia: Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (hereafter SCAN Team). While there are three
main initiative/programs to prevent child abuse in Malaysia, namely Child Protection Team, Child Protection Unit and SCAN Team; this paper focuses on only one initiative – SCAN Team which based at the General Hospital Kuala Lumpur (hereafter GHKL). The presentation of this paper is based on the findings of in-depth interview with focal person who manages SCAN Team, and further supported by relevant important documents related to SCAN Team
(i.e. archives newspaper from SCAN Team, Malaysian Social Institute (Institut Sosial Malaysia – ISM) and relevant secondary data). Findings of this study revealed that SCAN
Team has effectively deal with challenges during its early establishment; notably, SCAN Team has received international recognition in 1998 for ‘protecting the lives of children’. Nonetheless, the awareness of public about the existence of SCAN Team has waned in 21st Century due to several issues and challenges. Despite this, SCAN Team is moving forward through initiatives, in particular, re-marketing their program through various activities and
campaigns to prevent child abuse in Malaysia. |
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| spelling | uitm-127172022-07-01T05:10:17Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12717/ Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] jas Ahmad, Yarina Denise, Cuthbert Arunachalam, Dharma Niner, Sara This paper presents a pioneering program/initiative to prevent child abuse in Malaysia: Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (hereafter SCAN Team). While there are three main initiative/programs to prevent child abuse in Malaysia, namely Child Protection Team, Child Protection Unit and SCAN Team; this paper focuses on only one initiative – SCAN Team which based at the General Hospital Kuala Lumpur (hereafter GHKL). The presentation of this paper is based on the findings of in-depth interview with focal person who manages SCAN Team, and further supported by relevant important documents related to SCAN Team (i.e. archives newspaper from SCAN Team, Malaysian Social Institute (Institut Sosial Malaysia – ISM) and relevant secondary data). Findings of this study revealed that SCAN Team has effectively deal with challenges during its early establishment; notably, SCAN Team has received international recognition in 1998 for ‘protecting the lives of children’. Nonetheless, the awareness of public about the existence of SCAN Team has waned in 21st Century due to several issues and challenges. Despite this, SCAN Team is moving forward through initiatives, in particular, re-marketing their program through various activities and campaigns to prevent child abuse in Malaysia. Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies 2015-06 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12717/2/AJ_YARINA%20AHMAD%20JAS%2015.pdf Ahmad, Yarina and Denise, Cuthbert and Arunachalam, Dharma and Niner, Sara (2015) Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.]. (2015) Journal of Administrative Science <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Journal_of_Administrative_Science.html>, 12 (1). pp. 60-72. ISSN 1675-1302 |
| spellingShingle | Ahmad, Yarina Denise, Cuthbert Arunachalam, Dharma Niner, Sara Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title | Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title_full | Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title_fullStr | Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title_short | Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN Team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / Yarina Ahmad ... [et al.] |
| title_sort | suspected child abuse and neglect team (scan team): early establishment, success stories, challenges and the way forward / yarina ahmad ... [et al.] |
| url | https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/12717/ |